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Jody Cooke © 2014 All Rights Reserved I love the red star in the middle. It just grabs me and pulls me into the mandala...which is what I'd want a mandala to do! I think I have the yellow, pink, orange and green color story exhausted now...will probably move into an new combination next time around. Until then...Enjoy the warm hues and happiness of color!
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 Jody Cooke © 2014 All Rights Reserved I surprise myself with my color combinations, because even as recent as a year ago, I wouldn't be this bold and bright (and loud) with color. Now, I just do it...what's going to happen? Nothing! I just move on to the next one and color it with a completely new set of colors. Starting in the center I just pick up hues that feel right to me...somedays it's the blues and greens other days it's neutrals...well, actually it's never neutrals. :-) But today it's sunny yellow! Makes me just want to pack my bags and go to Jamaica...now. Maybe I need a business trip! ha
 Jody Cooke © 2014 All Rights Reserved I went to a great art show tonight! I felt so inspired I wanted to come home and put more of my finished designs up on my website! I thought I wanted to fill in more of the background of this one...but, since I haven't yet...maybe it's done. Enjoy a warm and sunny mandala on a cold winter day!
Jody Cooke @ 2014 All Rights Reserved Usually I like to fill up every possible inch with lines and color, but today I am giving homage to a snowy background in honor of this beautiful winter day. Keeping it simple today.
Jody Cooke © 2014 All Rights Reserved Someday I am going to contact a manufacturer of umbrellas...because I think these mandalas would be stunning in a functional application as well as a decorative one. Until then, I'll keep creating them in all color-ways for all moods. Definitely feeling bold and brave today! To think in college when I was studying fabric design my friend, a painter, often said my colors were "whited out". He was right. I put white in everything because I was timid with color in my teens and early twenties....not anymore!
 Jody Cooke © 2014 All Rights Reserved I am so happy to be back at my drafting table creating in this wonderful new year. As much as I love Christmas and tell myself that decorating a tree, and a house for Christmas is my "art"....It's not! And Christmas cookies aren't either. :-) They are creative, and artful but it's not my mandalas. I had so much fun making this design yesterday morning as the sun came up and started shining in my work room. It was as if a wave of peace came over me, calming me and reassuring me...all is well. I colored it today and just had such a happy and fun time with it. Now that I see it here on my website, it reminds me of a snowy winter day (which indeed it is) with all the promise of Spring to come soon. Happy New Year! May 2014 be the best year of your life!
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AuthorHello, and welcome to my website. My name is Jody Cooke and I am a designer living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I have been an artist in some form or another for over thirty years. My new passion is mandalas! Since I learned about them in January 2013, I have created over 1,500 (black and white) of these circular patterns and over 160 full color. Some are very small and sketchy, most are 8 inches in diameter, currently I am creating on 24" x 18" paper (transitioning into a Lotus Mandala series as of summer 2017) and one is a 24 inch square acrylic mandala painting on canvas. Definitely not my preferred medium..but I gave it a try! CategoriesArchive
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